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JEMC said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Going by my last visit on an e-tailer today, it was absolutely necessary to lower the prices of the 5080 and 5070. Both GPUs have been in stock for a couple days now at massive markups. The 5070 for instance started at 729€ and went up to 879€ with 8 models available. By comparison the only 9070XT that was available went for "only" 789€, and that one was a Sapphire Nitro+ OC. The 5080 meanwhile was between 1450 and 1500€ among 3 models and clearly too expensive for potential buyers 

I think, or maybe hope, that it won't be long before we see those prices going down. AIBs have pushed its markups too far this time around and, with both Nvidia and AMD not really bringing a big performance jump with the new cards, the potential buyers of those cards will shrink sooner than later, being reduced to those on cards from two or more generations ago. And if those have waited so long to upgrade, they can wait a bit more until supply catches up with demand and prices "normalize".

And what I forgot to mention, the 5070Ti is not getting the price cut because it's the best value by far and since it's a cut-down 5080, NVidia is naturally keen to sell those rather than 5070Ti as they'll get more profit from those per die.

Of course, they overdid it and dies that should have been sorted out for a 5070Ti still got sold in 5080's, killing their reputation in the process through too much greed.